Marion Hänsel … a singular career spanning more than three decades as actress, director, producer and trapeze artist. Photo: Man Films
The Belgian film-maker Marion Hänsel, who died of a heart attack in Brussels yesterday (8 June), had a varied career which saw her work as a trapeze artist, perform circus tricks for the grandmother of the New Wave Agnès Varda and receive of a timely career retrospective earlier this year at the Rotterdam International Film Festival.
She was born in Marseilles in 1949 but grew up in Antwerp. She left home as a teenager to study painting at art school in Devon, where she honed her English. She had never particularly wanted to be a circus artist but thought it might be a useful way to find parts in films. She spent two years in New York at Lee Strasberg’s Actors’ Studio. Returning to Europe, she spent another two years in...
The Belgian film-maker Marion Hänsel, who died of a heart attack in Brussels yesterday (8 June), had a varied career which saw her work as a trapeze artist, perform circus tricks for the grandmother of the New Wave Agnès Varda and receive of a timely career retrospective earlier this year at the Rotterdam International Film Festival.
She was born in Marseilles in 1949 but grew up in Antwerp. She left home as a teenager to study painting at art school in Devon, where she honed her English. She had never particularly wanted to be a circus artist but thought it might be a useful way to find parts in films. She spent two years in New York at Lee Strasberg’s Actors’ Studio. Returning to Europe, she spent another two years in...
- 6/9/2020
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Industry professionals get first look at new work.
Works in progress from Brazil, Poland, Mexico, Greece and Russia have won awards for the best pitches at the second edition of European Work in Progress during Film Festival Cologne.
The five winners were chosen on Tuesday (15) by an international jury consisting of Locarno Film Festival’s new artistic director Lili Hinstin, Zdf Enterprises’ director of acquisitions for feature films Margrit Stärk, Albanian producer Sabina Kodra, whose Erafilm was behind Robert Budina’s A Shelter Among The Clouds), and Yohann Comte, co-founder of French sales company Charades.
The awards were presented at...
Works in progress from Brazil, Poland, Mexico, Greece and Russia have won awards for the best pitches at the second edition of European Work in Progress during Film Festival Cologne.
The five winners were chosen on Tuesday (15) by an international jury consisting of Locarno Film Festival’s new artistic director Lili Hinstin, Zdf Enterprises’ director of acquisitions for feature films Margrit Stärk, Albanian producer Sabina Kodra, whose Erafilm was behind Robert Budina’s A Shelter Among The Clouds), and Yohann Comte, co-founder of French sales company Charades.
The awards were presented at...
- 10/16/2019
- by 158¦Martin Blaney¦40¦
- ScreenDaily
A couple of weeks ago, I interviewed Nathan Gelgud, an artist who has brought a wry comic book charm to the world of cinephilia. It seemed only natural that I should find out more about the art that has influenced him and so I asked him to select his personal top ten favorite movie posters. He was more than up for the challenge and decided to narrow the field to illustrated posters, which makes perfect sense. Here are his ten favorites, in no special order.1. (Above) Us one sheet for Five on the Black Hand Side (Oscar Williams, USA, 1973). Artist: Jack Davis.I love all the accouterments on the main figure—the hat, the cigar, the umbrella, suitcase, those things that go over the shoes. But even better is the way Davis has arranged all the characters around him, the way the jumping guy’s arm joins with the guy...
- 11/3/2017
- MUBI
Paolo Virzi’s Italian buddy movie starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Micaela Ramazzotti will open the roster of 47 films from the 28 EU member states at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, Maryland.
The Us premiere of Henrik Ruben Genz’s Danish caper Satisfaction 1720 will close the 29th annual edition of the showcase, running from December 1-18.
The selection includes 14 foreign language Oscar submissions such as Maren Ade’s German comedy Toni Erdmann, Juho Kuosmanen’s Finnish biopic The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Mäki and Italian documentarian Gianfranco Rosi’s Berlin Golden Bear winner Fire At Sea.
Nine Us premieres include On The Other Side (Zrinko Ogresta, Croatia), Pericle (Stefano Mordini, Italy), Together For Ever (Lithuania), and Upstream (Marion Hänsel, Belgium).
The EU is represented in the United States by the Washington DC Delegation of the European Union, which works with the diplomatic missions of the 28 EU member states.
The...
The Us premiere of Henrik Ruben Genz’s Danish caper Satisfaction 1720 will close the 29th annual edition of the showcase, running from December 1-18.
The selection includes 14 foreign language Oscar submissions such as Maren Ade’s German comedy Toni Erdmann, Juho Kuosmanen’s Finnish biopic The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Mäki and Italian documentarian Gianfranco Rosi’s Berlin Golden Bear winner Fire At Sea.
Nine Us premieres include On The Other Side (Zrinko Ogresta, Croatia), Pericle (Stefano Mordini, Italy), Together For Ever (Lithuania), and Upstream (Marion Hänsel, Belgium).
The EU is represented in the United States by the Washington DC Delegation of the European Union, which works with the diplomatic missions of the 28 EU member states.
The...
- 11/9/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Selected film projects will be presented at the 2014 event, which takes place during the Netherlands Film Festival from Sept 25-28.
21 projects from 15 different European countries will participate in this year’s Holland Film Market (Hfm) Co-Production Platform.
Run during the Netherlands Film Festival from Sept 25-28 in Utrecht, the selected film projects will be presented to co-producers, distributors, sales agents and financies to encourage co-productions between European countries.
This year will also see the second edition of the Hfm Work-in-Progress Session on Sept 26, where five projects previously pitched at the Hfm will present rushes and rough cuts of their film to international sales agents, festival representatives, distributors and funding partners.
The prize-winning projects of both the co-production platform and the Work-in-Progress Session will be announced during the Hfm closing ceremony on Sept 27.
Hfm Co-Production Platform 2014 projects
International projects:
Dew by Denijal Hasanovic – production company: Skorpion Arte (Poland)Female Falling Down by Therese Ahlbeck – eyefeed (Sweden)Game Over...
21 projects from 15 different European countries will participate in this year’s Holland Film Market (Hfm) Co-Production Platform.
Run during the Netherlands Film Festival from Sept 25-28 in Utrecht, the selected film projects will be presented to co-producers, distributors, sales agents and financies to encourage co-productions between European countries.
This year will also see the second edition of the Hfm Work-in-Progress Session on Sept 26, where five projects previously pitched at the Hfm will present rushes and rough cuts of their film to international sales agents, festival representatives, distributors and funding partners.
The prize-winning projects of both the co-production platform and the Work-in-Progress Session will be announced during the Hfm closing ceremony on Sept 27.
Hfm Co-Production Platform 2014 projects
International projects:
Dew by Denijal Hasanovic – production company: Skorpion Arte (Poland)Female Falling Down by Therese Ahlbeck – eyefeed (Sweden)Game Over...
- 8/13/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Frankenstein's Army is poised to invade Rotterdam and it's bringing the latest by Ringu director Nakata Hideo with it. The International Film Festival Rotterdam have announced the first wave of selections in their Bright Future and Spectrum lineups and included within those first titles are Richard Raaphorst's debut Frankenstein's Army and Nakata's Complex. Here's the full announcement:Rotterdam Film Festival announces first selections in Bright Future and SpectrumInternational Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) announces the first selections in its feature film main sections Bright Future (first and second films only) and Spectrum. Among the many world and international premieres are new works by famous directors Nakata Hideo, Cristi Puiu, Marion Hänsel and by numerous young talents.By the second week of January, Iffr will announce the full lineups...
- 12/17/2012
- Screen Anarchy
I was wondering why Peter Mullan's Neds wasn't included in Venice. I was wondering why the Midnight Madness section didn't name Koen Mortier's latest. I was wondering why Cannes regular Bent Hamer wasn't in Cannes. Tiff's Cwc section has all three high profile items, plus Venice Film Festival's Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichard) and Three (Tom Tykwer). Reichard will participate in Kelly Reichardt in a Mavericks discussion about the behind the scenes of her process. Here is the entire line-up: 22nd of May Koen Mortier, Belgium World Premiere The director of Ex-Drummer returns with an artful meditation on political violence. A security guard fails to prevent a horrific explosion in a shopping mall, then lives through the aftermath as a series of overlapping what-ifs. Africa United Debs Gardner-Paterson, United Kingdom World Premiere Africa United tells the extraordinary story of three Rwandan children and their bid to achieve their lifelong...
- 8/24/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
The sophomore film from the director of Ex Drummer, Swedish thriller Bad Faith, Pablo Trapero's Carancho (my personal favorite film from Cannes 2010), Tsui Hark's Detective Dee, Tom Tykwer's Three and a host of others populate one of the more exciting lineups for the Tiff Contemporary World Cinema Program in recent years. Here's the complete lineup:
22nd of May Koen Mortier, Belgium World Premiere
The director of Ex-Drummer returns with an artful meditation on political violence. A security guard fails to prevent a horrific explosion in a shopping mall, then lives through the aftermath as a series of overlapping what-ifs.
Africa United Debs Gardner-Paterson, United Kingdom World Premiere
Africa United tells the extraordinary story of three Rwandan children and their bid to achieve their lifelong dream - to take part in the opening ceremony of the 2010 Football World Cup in Johannesburg.
Aftershock Feng Xiaogang, China North American Premiere...
22nd of May Koen Mortier, Belgium World Premiere
The director of Ex-Drummer returns with an artful meditation on political violence. A security guard fails to prevent a horrific explosion in a shopping mall, then lives through the aftermath as a series of overlapping what-ifs.
Africa United Debs Gardner-Paterson, United Kingdom World Premiere
Africa United tells the extraordinary story of three Rwandan children and their bid to achieve their lifelong dream - to take part in the opening ceremony of the 2010 Football World Cup in Johannesburg.
Aftershock Feng Xiaogang, China North American Premiere...
- 8/24/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Cologne, Germany -- Five veterans of the European film scene have been selected for the jury of the 2009 Shooting Stars, the talent scout event held every year during the Berlin International Film Festival.
U.K. film historian Peter Cowie, Belgian producer/director Marion Hansel, Macedonian actress Labina Mitevska, Spanish producer Antonio Saura, Portuguese casting director Patricia Vasconcelos will select the 10 European talents who will attend the 2009 event.
The new faces will be presented to the international industry at various events in Berlin between Feb. 7-9.
For the first time next year, one of the 10 young actors will be picked to receive the inaugural Shooting Stars Award, presented by Germany’s Studio Babelsberg.
U.K. film historian Peter Cowie, Belgian producer/director Marion Hansel, Macedonian actress Labina Mitevska, Spanish producer Antonio Saura, Portuguese casting director Patricia Vasconcelos will select the 10 European talents who will attend the 2009 event.
The new faces will be presented to the international industry at various events in Berlin between Feb. 7-9.
For the first time next year, one of the 10 young actors will be picked to receive the inaugural Shooting Stars Award, presented by Germany’s Studio Babelsberg.
- 11/17/2008
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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